EGU22-8366, updated on 23 Apr 2023

https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8366
EGU General Assembly 2022
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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The 14 December 2021, Mw 7.4 Flores Earthquake: Review of the

hypocenter relocation, slip distribution, coulomb stress, and
seismic hazard
Supriyanto Rohadi, Tio Azhar Prakoso, Tatok Yatimantoro, Aditya Rahman, Bambang Sunardi,
Agustya Adimarta, Nelly Florida Riama, Suko Prayitno Adi, Bagus Adi Wibowo, and Dwikorita
Karnawati
Agency fo Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics

A major earthquakes struck the north of Flores island, in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, on 14
December 2021 at 10:20:22 local time, the hypocenter is 7.59°S, 122.26°E, depth 12.0 km, with
moment magnitude Mw 7.4. The faulting orientation of the mainshock, fault plane was strike =
290°, dip = 89°, and rake = 177°, and the auxiliary plane was strike = 21°, dip = 87°, and rake = 1°,
respectively, is possibly related to thrust fault in the sea. Focal mechanism solutions for the
earthquakes indicate rupture occurred thrust fault with large dip angle. The mainshock was
followed by low aftershocks productivity may due to homogeneous faulting systems and relatively
uniform stress state in that region. We analyze aftershock hypocenter relocation and gravity
anomaly, slip distribution, coulomb stress and seismic hazard (PSHA) to investigate the earthquake
characteristics and seismic hazard analysis. The distribution of hypocenter relocations show that
aftershock ruptured distribute between two block of high gravity anomaly, its indicate that it was
not the new fault. The inversion of the source model shows several time periods of energy release
with three main peaks. These temporal rupture suggest repetition of a large scale slip on the large
asperity. The models of coulomb stress indicate that static stress transfer due to the Mw 7.4
earthquake is suitable with aftershock spatial distribution. We compute the probabilistic seismic
hazard assessment in the Flores region for Earthquake mitigation

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